Cybersecurity Program Manager is a critical business and compliance role responsible for operational governance, customer assurance, audit readiness, and continuous monitoring of Cornerstone public sector cloud offerings in Canada and the United States. The role leads and coordinates activities supporting Government of Canada Protected B services, FedRAMP Moderate, and the AWS GovCloud / DoD Impact Level 4 (IL4) workplace. The role coordinates annual assessments, continuous monitoring, POA&M; management, vulnerability governance, corrective action plans, audit evidence, control-owner accountability, customer onboarding readiness, and development of the Cornerstone Protected B solution.

This role will support the overall vision of the Cybersecurity Program at Cornerstone OnDemand. This position is part of the global Cybersecurity Engineering and Assurance team and reports to the Sr. Director, Quality & Risk Management.

Public Sector Program Leadership

Own the integrated cybersecurity program plan, governance cadence, milestones, dependencies, risks, and executive reporting for Protected B, FedRAMP Moderate, and DoD IL4 initiatives. Serve as a senior program interface across Cybersecurity, Quality & Risk Management, Cloud Operations, Engineering, Product, Legal, Sales, Customer Success, external assessors, government sponsors, and authorizing organizations. Maintain clear RACI assignments, named control owners, backup coverage, decision logs, risk acceptance records, and escalation paths to avoid single points of failure.

Translate regulatory, authorization, contractual, and customer requirements into actionable work plans and measurable operational outcomes. Lead cybersecurity program management for existing Protected B services and development, readiness, and operationalization of the Cornerstone Protected B solution. Coordinate alignment with Government of Canada security expectations, including ITSG-33 risk management practices, applicable cloud control requirements, security assessment and authorization activities, and continuous monitoring.

Support designated Canadian security responsibilities, including government and customer communications, evidence coordination, control ownership, personnel/access requirements, security documentation, and assessment support. Coordinate data-handling, access, residency, subcontractor, incident, and shared-responsibility requirements applicable to Protected B services.

Coordinate

FedRAMP Moderate authorization maintenance,



annual assessments, control implementation reviews, evidence collection, assessor interviews, continuous monitoring deliverables, POA&M; updates, significant-change activities, and customer assurance requests. Maintain program oversight of the authorization boundary, SSP, control implementation statements, policies, procedures, inventories, diagrams, customer responsibility documentation, and supporting evidence. Ensure findings, risks, and compliance obligations have accountable owners, are tracked to closure, and are escalated when authorization commitments are at risk.

Lead cybersecurity program coordination for the DoD IL4 GovCloud environment, including DISA and mission-owner engagements, authorization maintenance, eMASS package coordination, annual 3PAO assessments, continuous monitoring, and customer onboarding readiness. Oversee vulnerability governance across operating systems, containers, repositories, base images, applications, and infrastructure, including named owners, remediation plans, recurring dashboards, POA&M; traceability, deviation/risk-acceptance workflows, and evidence. Ensure reporting provides transparent status of out-of-SLA vulnerabilities, externally or customer-facing exposure, authentication and authorization impacts, remediation progress, and residual risk.

Coordinate

GovCloud audit readiness, including control-owner assignments, SSP and IL4 addendum reviews, evidence handling, interview preparation, system demonstrations, CUI-aware screen sharing, assessor follow-ups, and final evidence submission. Governance, Risk and Executive Communication Maintain integrated risk registers, corrective action trackers, audit plans, control-owner matrices, compliance dashboards, and executive reporting. Drive root-cause analysis and durable corrective actions for missed assessments, late remediation, evidence gaps, unclear ownership, reduced operational capacity, or insufficient government communication.

Provide concise, fact-based communications to executives, customers, assessors, and government representatives while protecting CUI, Protected B,



security-sensitive information, and authorization package materials. Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, Risk Management, Business, or related field, or equivalent relevant experience. 7+ years of experience in cybersecurity, compliance, risk, audit, cloud security, or public sector program management, including experience leading complex cross-functional programs. Demonstrated experience supporting a cloud service provider or SaaS organization in regulated public sector environments.

Working knowledge of FedRAMP Moderate, NIST SP 800-53/53A, SSPs, SAPs, SARs, POA&Ms;, continuous monitoring, annual assessments, and 3PAO engagement.

Experience managing vulnerability remediation programs, SLA monitoring, exception/deviation requests, risk acceptance, corrective action plans, evidence validation, and executive escalation. Knowledge of Government of Canada Protected B security expectations, ITSG-33, cloud security controls, shared responsibility, and security assessment and authorization practices.

Experience coordinating external audits, control-owner interviews, system demonstrations, evidence collection, remediation tracking, and government inquiries. S. public sector environments and contracts. Canadian citizen through Public Services and Procurement Canada’s Contract Security Program (PSPC CSP). and maintain security screening at the level required for Cornerstone’s organizational security clearance.

Must be able to satisfy any additional Government of Canada personnel-security requirements applicable to Cornerstone’s federal contracts, including eligibility for a Secret security clearance S. federal or Department of Defense cloud programs.

Experience working directly with Government of Canada departments, DISA, federal agency authorizing officials, mission owners, 3PAOs, or independent security assessors.

Experience with AWS GovCloud, vulnerability scanning, SIEM, ticketing, GRC, and evidence-management platforms. LI-remote All qualified applicants are given consideration regardless of race, color, gender, age, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other protected class as provided in applicable Federal, State, or Local fair employment laws. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact us at careers@csod.

📌 Senior Cybersecurity Program Manager (Winnipeg)
🏢 Cornerstone OnDemand
📍 Winnipeg